ABSTRACT
The forthcoming appearance of Anton Webern in the Musica da Camara concerts in Barcelona is an important event, worthy of attention. Webern’s compositional style has one outstanding characteristic – extreme conciseness. The majority of Webern’s works are written for diverse chamber groups, to which he also allies admirably the human voice – hence the prominence of the lied in his output. The Path to the New Music is a series of lectures given by Webern to a lay audience at a private house in Vienna in 1932 and 1933. Webern’s plan, in his lectures, is to show, along historical lines, the emergence of novelty in music; when, how and why things that had not been thought of, said or done before, happen to come about. The denudation in Webern has the effect of throwing the activity of the new factors into high relief.
